A fierce panther, looking out of a window in the same discontented mood as the vulture.
"See him stoop down," said Dotty; "he makes as much bones of himself as he can." A horned owl, with eyes like auntie's when she looks "'stonished." An eagle, with a face, Horace said, like a very cute lawyer.
A "speckled bear," without any spectacles.

A "nelephant" like a great hill of stone, and a baby "nelephant," with ears like ruffled aprons.
An anaconda that "kept making a dandelion of himself." A great grizzly bear hugging a young grizzly daughter.
"Who made that _grizzle_ ?" asked Fly, disgusted.
"God." "Why did He?
I wouldn't!--Miss Perdegoff, which does God love best, great ugly _grizzles_ or hunkydory little parrots ?" "O, fie!" said Mrs.Pragoff, really shocked; "where did a well-bred child like you ever hear such a coarse word as that ?" "Hollis says hunkydory," replied Fly, with her finger in her mouth, while Horace pretended to be absorbed in a monkey.
Mrs.Pragoff turned the subject.
"Tell me, children, which do you consider the most wonderful animal you have ever seen ?" "The lion," replied Prudy.
"The whale," said Dotty.

"Which do you, Mrs.Pragoff ?" "This sort of animal, that _thinks_," replied the lady, touching Dotty's shoulder: "this shows the most amazing power of all." "You don't mean to call me an animal," said Dotty, with a slight shade of resentment in her voice.
"Why, little sister, I just hope you're not a vegetable! Don't you know we are all animals that breathe ?" "O, are we?
Then I don't care," said Dotty, and serenely followed the others up stairs, "where the dried things were." Next they went to Wood's Museum, and saw greater wonders still.
The "Sleeping Beauty," dreaming of the Prince, with lips just parted and breath very gently coming and going.

Dotty would not believe at first that her waxen bosom palpitated by clockwork.
There were distorted mirrors, which Horace held Flyaway up to peep into, that he might enjoy her bewilderment when she saw her face twisted into strange shapes.
The Cardiff Giant, which Horace said "you might depend upon was a hoax." An Egyptian dromedary, which Fly "just knew" had a sore throat; and a stuffed gorilla in "buffalo coat and leather gloves." Then they had a lunch at Delmonico's, quite as good, Prudy admitted, "as what you found in Boston." After this, to Dotty's dismay, they went to the Academy of Design, and criticised pictures.
The statue of Eve Horace regarded with some contempt.

"No wonder she didn't know any better than to eat the apple! What do you expect of a woman with such a small head as that?
Look here who do you suppose was Eve's shoemaker?
Cain ?" "Shoemaker?
Why, Horace, she's barefoot." "So she is, now, Dot; but she's worn shoes long enough to cramp her toes." "Strange I never noticed that before," said Mrs.Pragoff.